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Citing a "strategy shift" Activision Blizzard Inc. is cutting its Twin Cities staff by 20 percent, resulting in 31 layoffs at the videogame company's offices in Eden Prairie and Eagan.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincitie...in-cities.html
Thread: More layoffs
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2012-11-06, 01:06 PM #1Stood in the Fire
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More layoffs
Last edited by Galaddriel; 2012-11-06 at 01:45 PM.
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2012-11-06, 01:17 PM #2The Lightbringer
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Thanks for the info, I'll take this along in our next board meeting.
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2012-11-06, 01:19 PM #3Epic!
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And that means exactly what impact for a normal player?
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2012-11-06, 01:20 PM #4Grunt
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Its just a post to get people to say OMG WoW is dieing cause they are laying off people even tho it has nothing to do with that.
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2012-11-06, 01:23 PM #5Epic!
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Surely those weren't GMs and increase in average waiting time that soon will happen will be just a display bug AGAIN.
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2012-11-06, 01:27 PM #6The Patient
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Have you even read the article you are linking to? You make it sound as if Activision Blizzard (the whole company) just reduced its employees by 20%.
Originally Posted by Galaddriel
The article makes it clear that this isn't even related to Blizzard games.
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2012-11-06, 01:33 PM #7Scarab Lord
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Anyone panicking about this hasn't read the article yet.
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2012-11-06, 01:39 PM #8Pandaren Monk
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Actually, they're laying off 30 people in the Twin Cities offices. Originally Posted by Galaddriel
30 out of their 7738 employees is actually 0.39%, not 20%.Last edited by Sydänyö; 2012-11-06 at 01:42 PM.
've is short for have. C/Sh/Would've or c/s/would have. Not c/s/would of.
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2012-11-06, 01:57 PM #9Bloodsail Admiral
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Lmfao. It's only 31 people at one of Actiblizzions offices, and one that handles lower budget single player games. This has absolutely _nothing_ to do with World of Warcraft. ''The sky is falling'' xDxDxD
Although it does suck to get laid off.Grievuuz#2550 Originally Posted by Laraven
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2012-11-06, 05:25 PM #10The Lightbringer
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$15/month does not make you a shareholder in Activision corporation. Layoffs suck, so does redundancy and duplicity for a company. If you only need 10 people to handle a task there is no need to have 20 people working on it.
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2012-11-06, 05:28 PM #11The Lightbringer
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Ssssh, you'll shatter his self-worth. Perish the thought of being a mere, lowly consumer! Nooo, no I'm not a consumer, I am a SHAREHOLDER, interested in the OVERARCING CONGLOMERATE BEHEMOTH. Originally Posted by Constellation
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2012-11-06, 05:31 PM #12Keyboard Turner
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^ This. Originally Posted by Grievuuz
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2012-11-06, 05:32 PM #13Super Moderator
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